Thousand Freshmen Will Sign Names Today in Memorial Hall, Attend Talk By President Conant in Union Tonight

A thousand Freshmen, selected from the largest group of applicants ever to seek admission to Harvard College, will register today in Memorial Hall.

Of this number, a standard size for the past ten Freshman classes, approximately 900 will be newcomers, while dropped and provisional Freshmen will make up the rest.

Upperclassmen in the College return tomorrow and Monday, and by Monday night officials expect to have an undergraduate body of about 3700 enrolled, approximately the same as last year.

Size of University Static

Advance indications are that the enrollment of the University as a whole, including the eleven graduate schools as well as the College, will vary little from the figure of 8,583 of last year. No large changes are looked for in any department.

New men will be welcomed tonight by President Conant at a reception at the Union at 7:30 o'clock. Other speakers will be Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress; the Reverend Willard L. Sperry, chairman of the Board of Preachers; and Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admission. The reception will be preceded by a buffet supper in the Union at 6:30 o'clock.

Freshman Week Program

Tomorrow morning the class will meet at 9 o'clock in New Lecture Hall to hear College officers explain various problems connected with the year's studies. Alfred C. Hanford, Dean of the College; Keyes DeW. Metcalf, director of the University Library; and Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, will speak.

The rest of Saturday morning and the afternoon the Class of '43 will spend in conference with their several advisers, in language examinations, and in tours of Widener Library.

An athletic meeting will take place Saturday evening in the Union. William J. Bingham '16, director of Athletics; Kendric N. Marshall '21, Secretary of the Union; J. Neil Stahley, Freshman football coach; and Torbert H. Macdonald '40, captain of the football team, will speak.